The Mar Piccolo basin is an internal sea basin located along the Ionian coast (Southern Italy), and it is surrounded primarily by fractured carbonate karstic environment. Because of the karstic features, the main continental water inflow is from groundwater discharge. The Mar Piccolo basin represents a peculiar and sensitive environment and a social emergency because of sea water and sediment p...

Epilepsy results from “electrical storms” inside the brain that cause recurring seizures. About 2 in 100 people in the United States experience an unprovoked seizure at least once in their lives. The population and shape of involved epileptic neurons vary along the time course of each epileptiform event in a very short time span. Current clinical functional imaging methods, such as functional m...

The Laurentian Great Lakes Basin provides an ecological system to evaluate the potential effect of climate change on dynamics of fish populations and the management of their fisheries. This review describes the physical and biological mechanisms by which fish populations will be affected by changes in timing and duration of ice cover, precipitation events and temperature regimes associated with...

This thesis is composed of three Chapters. Chapter 1 is a preface that outlines the degree program and components of my thesis. Chapter 2 is the main body of the thesis; it is an investigation into pore pressures in the Auger basin and how they are related to fluid venting at the seafloor. I map the distribution of subsurface pressures in thick interconnected sand bodies that are present across...

Ecological succession is one of the most important concepts in ecology. However for microbial community succession, there is a lack of a solid theoretical framework regarding succession in microorganisms. This is in part due to microbial community complexity and plasticity but also because little is known about temporal patterns of microbial community shifts in different kinds of ecosystems, in...

The northern piedmont of the western Kunlun mountains (Xinjiang, China) is marked at its easternmost extremity, south of the Hotan-Qira oases, by a set of normal faults trending N50E for nearly 70 km. Conspicuous on Landsat and SPOT images, these faults follow the southeastern border of a deep flexural basin and may be related to the subsidence of the Tarim platform loaded by the western Kunlun...

COVID-19, kısa zamanda tüm dünyaya hızla yayılmış ve Dünya Sağlık Örgütü tarafından küresel çapta bir pandemi olarak ilan edilmiştir. Bu salgın sürecinde dünyada olduğu gibi üniversitelerimizin eğitim-öğretimi aksamış, uygulamalı eğitimin ağırlıklı olması nedeniyle bu durumdan en fazla tıp fakülteleri etkilenmiştir. süreçte fakültemiz, üniversitemizin paydaşlarıyla koordineli şekilde çalışarak ...

Background: Injecting drug users (IDUs) and prisoners are considered to be highly vulnerable to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in Iran. This study was carried out to determine the prevalence of HIV infection among IDUs released from jail in Bahar (Hamadan, Iran). Methods: In a cross-sectional study, 118 IDUs who were prisoners during 2001-07 were evaluated. Their demographic and p...